TY - BOOK ID - 77897078 TI - Following Djuna : women lovers and the erotics of loss PY - 1996 SN - 0585020752 9780585020754 0253330238 025321047X 9780253330239 9780253210470 DB - UniCat KW - BARNES, DJUNA, 1892-1982 KW - LESBIANS' WRITINGS KW - AMERICAN FICTION KW - ENGLISH FICTION KW - EROTIC STORIES KW - HOMOSEXUALITY IN LITERATURE KW - LOSS (PSYCHOLOGY) KW - WOMEN IN LITERATURE KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS KW - Barnes, Djuna, 1892-1982 KW - Lesbians' Writings KW - American Fiction KW - English Fiction KW - Erotic Stories KW - Homosexuality In Literature KW - Loss (Psychology) KW - Women In Literature KW - Literary Criticism KW - Family & Relationships KW - Barnes, djuna, 1892-1982 KW - Lesbians' writings KW - American fiction KW - English fiction KW - Erotic stories KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Loss (psychology) KW - Women in literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Family & relationships UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77897078 AB - "Allen's book will . . . provide the categories that will deepen our understanding of lesbian relationships and of lesbian fiction." --Lesbian Review of Books"Barnes scholars will . . . want to pick up Carolyn Allen's new book, for it not only offers perceptive readings of Nightwood and the "Little Girl" stories . . . , but traces the example of Barnes's exploration of lesbian power and loss in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson, Rebecca Brown, and the underrated Bertha Harris." --Review of Contemporary Fiction" . . . fascinating . . . [a] fine volume . . . " --Choice"Following Djunais a fascinating analysis of the textual erotics and lyrical seductions of the work of Djuna Barnes and the writers she influences. This scintillating genealogy of lesbian intertextuality . . . expands the field of lesbian and feminist literary inquiry and concepts of lesbian literary production." --Judith Roof"As lesbian literary history, here is an instant classic." --Jane Marcus"This is an important and necessary book; even further, speaking as an admirer of the writers and literary works it discusses and as a personal expert on lost love, I find Following Djunairrestible." --Karen Helfrich, Lambda Book ReportCarolyn Allen argues for the importance of women's fiction in understanding women's erotics--emotional and sexual exchanges between women. ER -